Happy Nyepi Day! 
At the beginning, when he found out that he was a police officer, Jiang Pingce thought, at this time everyone only needed to follow the police force to find clues and analyze and solve the case. Now it seemed that things were far from simple.
The police force was no longer investigating the case, so they needed to investigate it themselves. First of all, they could not casually enter residents’ home, offices and other occasions to look for clues without a search warrant; Moreover, they went to question the suspects, and the suspect would ignore them, which invisibly increased the difficulty of the investigation.
Unless… Let them activate their skills and sneak into the suspect’s residence to verify it.
Jiang Pingce thought about it, and walked out to an unoccupied corner and stretched out his right hand. After the regular action of his right hand was made, the familiar three exes of x, y, and z appeared in his field of vision.
The skills of the Mathematics Department could be used.
Jiang Pingce opened the Research Group’s chat channel and found that the input box that was originally marked with ‘X’ had now returned to normal, and he immediately typed in the chat box: “Can everyone see my message?”
Yue Xingwen was discussing the case with the two senior sisters in the Xinghai Building at that time, and Jiang Pingce’s text popped up at the same time in the upper right corner of their vision. Yue Xingwen was stunned and hurriedly opened the chat channel, and indeed found that the Research Group’s chat channel was available.
Yue Xingwen typed: “What’s going on, was the Research Group’s chat channel unlocked?”
Jiang Pingce said, “The power is also unlocked.”
Yue Xingwen stretched out his right hand to summon the dictionary, and a thick <Modern Idiom Dictionary> really appeared in front of him.
Lin Manluo also tried the same, a familiar green vine appeared in her hand. She put the vine back, and quickly typed: “All the powers can be used, what is the situation?”
At the hospital, Liu Zhaoqing replied: “From yesterday’s entrance to the examination room until now, I was unable to use my skills. It suddenly worked just now, what happened?”
Ke Shaobin actively explained: “Probably because the criminal police force plans to close the case with an ‘accidental fall’ and no longer investigate this case. Captain Lin said to let Pignce investigate it himself, and this case is equivalent to completely transferred to us.”
Jiang Pingce said: “I’ll get off work immediately, let’s make an appointment to talk in detail.”
Yue Xingwen agreed: “It’s time for everyone to meet and exchange ideas.”
Ke Shaobin said: “This exam has equipped each of us with a mobile phone. I just checked, there are actually 300 yuan pocket money in the mobile phone WeChat wallet. Do you all have it?”
Yue Xingwen checked the balance and said: “I went to the hospital today to take a taxi back and forth, there is 270 yuan left.”
The other teammates said: “I have 300 yuan left.”
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Liu Zhaoqing said: “Let’s find a place to meet first. It’s almost dinner time, why don’t we eat together?”
Ke Shaobin immediately said excitedly: “Shall we find a restaurant to have a good meal? The Library student canteen is full of all kinds of dishes every day, the taste is the same. I haven’t eaten a decent meal for a long time, even if I am given a plate of authentic sour and spicy shredded potatoes, I will be very satisfied!”
The food in the Library required few points, the taste was indeed difficult to compliment, it was just for being full, regardless of whether it was good or not, like something produced by mechanization and assembly.
Ke Shaobin’s words made the cravings in everyone’s stomachs stir, anyway, it was almost dinner time and Yue Xingwen was hungry, so he said: “Let’s all eat together. When the time comes, scrape our pocket money together to pay and find an affordable restaurant.”
Jiang Pingce told them: “Ke Shaobin, you can copy all the information on the police force, use your wireless connection to copy it to your laptop. Xingwen, you can decide the place to eat. The place where the crime is in the Law Firm, it’s more convenient to set it near the Law Firm.”
Yue Xingwen: “No problem, I’ll send you the location when I find it.”
Everyone packed their things to prepare for the end of the day. Ke Shaobin seized the time to copy the information, including all the suspect statements, monitoring videos, information on cases handled by Lawyer Zhou, etc.
Yue Xingwen searched for the affordable restaurants nearby and found a home-style restaurant. The store was not luxuriously decorated, but the online evaluation of the dishes was delicious. The vegetarian dishes were 10 ~ 15 yuan, meat dishes were 50 ~ 80 yuan. They had 12 people and 500 yuan could order a dozen dishes, each only needing to pay 40 yuan out of pocket money.
After setting the place, Yue Xingwen, Lan Yarong and Lin Manluo first went to the restaurant to find the largest private room, and by the way, pulled their teammates into a WeChat group called ‘183 Devil Group’, and then sent the address location to everyone.
Liu Zhaoqing: “The name of the WeChat group was created by Xingwen?”
Yue Xingwen said: “Senior brother doesn’t like it?”
Liu Zhaoqing laughed: “It’s quite in line with our temperament.”
Everyone: “…”
Zhang Xiaonian and Zhuo Feng soon arrived. They lived in the Jinzuo Garden Community, just across the street from the restaurant. Later, Jiang Pingce, Ke Shaobin, Qin Miao, the ‘police trio’ and Xin Yan, the ‘forensic intern’, came by car. Four of them came together to save money; Liu Zhaoqing, Xu Yishen and Qin Lu also took a taxi together.
After everyone arrived, and looked at the teammates dressed differently around them. Everyone felt very novel.
Xu Yishen stared at Yue Xingwen with a smile and said, “Xingwen, dressed as a lawyer, still looks like that! Shirt, trousers, briefcase, tsk, looks like an elite style, you look a lot mature ah!”
Yue Xingwen coughed lightly and said, “I’m just a fake lawyer, Pingce’s police uniform is handsome.”
After work, Jiang Pingce went to the dressing room to change his uniform. Now he was wearing civilian clothes, people who didn’t see him were very curious about his appearance in a police uniform. Jiang Pingce changed the topic and said, “Have you ordered?”
Yue Xingwen handed the menu to Ke Shaobin and said, “I haven’t ordered yet, young Ke will order. In the past, every time the students went out to have a meal, young Ke was responsible for ordering food, and he hardly stepped on the thunder.”
Ke Shaobin took the menu with a smile, flipped through the picture. His excitement couldn’t be hidden, he looked up and said, “Does everyone have anything to avoid? Can you eat spicy food?”
Liu Zhaoqing said exaggeratedly, “After eating cabbage tofu in the library for so long, if you stuff me with a bowl of chili peppers now, I can eat it!”
Everyone: “…”
Qin Lu swallowed her saliva and said, “I like duck’s blood and beef tripe in spicy soup.”
Yue Xingwen knew that Pingce didn’t like to eat spicy food, so he said thoughtfully, “Don’t order all spicy food either, half spicy and half not, to cater for different tastes.”
Ke Shaobin replied, “Understood!” He called the waiter over and ordered 12 dishes and a soup in a row, all home-cooked and not expensive.
The waiter asked, “Do you want to serve the food now?”
Ke Shaobin nodded and said, “Serve the food, we’re all here.”
The waiter left with the menu.
A place like a restaurant was not a good place to openly discuss a case, and everyone tacitly agreed not to say much.
The meal was quickly brought up, the familiar shredded pork with green pepper, sesame tofu, and braised eggplant… The table was full of food, everyone was about to drool. Yue Xingwen picked up the chopsticks and smiled, “Come on, everyone eat. Only when you are full can you have the strength to work!”
Everyone picked up their chopsticks and ate happily.
This was food ah!
The library did cabbage stew with tofu every day with very little salt, and it tasted as if it had no flavor. Dishes such as scrambled eggs with tomatoes and minced eggplant were also processed by robots, where it could be compared to the hot dishes freshly prepared by the chef! Everyone recovered the long-lost taste bud stimulation and ate more uncontrollably.
Even Jiang Pingce, who was not very demanding about food, had a rare opportunity to chew a few more ribs. Ke Shaobin was even more satisfied, and finally even drank the soup clean. He touched his bulging stomach and smiled, “It’s so delicious!”
When the waiter came to collect the plates, he looked at everyone with a somewhat strange gaze. Was this group of people reincarnated starving ghosts? Everyone’s plate was eaten clean, and there was not even a drop of residue left in the bowl containing the soup… Really a clean-plate operation.
The 12 people left the restaurant with all the plates empty, Yue Xingwen said, “I have to find a more private place to talk, I can’t squeeze too many people, who has a bigger place?”
Zhang Xiaonian took the initiative to raise his hand and said< “The house assigned to me is a three-bedroom and one living room. If someone does not want to go back tonight, they can also live with me, each bedroom has a double bed, and you can also sleep on the sofa.”
Yue Xingwen immediately decided and said, “Just go to Xiao Nian.”
Jiang Pingce said, “It’s too flashy if 12 of us act together, let’s split up.”
So everyone divided into two groups and entered the Jinzuo Garden community one after another. Zhang Xiaonian brought a few people, Zhuo Feng brought a few people, and both of them had community access control cards, it was convenient to bring people in.
Everyone gathered on the 33rd floor of Building C of Xiao Nian. Zhang Xiaonian pointed to the locked door on the opposite side, “This is Lawyer Qi’s residence, and he should not have returned at this time.”
Jiang Pingce said, “Let’s talk about it in the house first.”
Everyone walked into Zhang Xiaonian’s temporary home, found a place to sit in the living room, and Zhang Xiaonian poured water for everyone.
Liu Zhaoqing walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked at the opposite building. “The crime scene, is the roof of the building across the street?”
Yue Xingwen also walked over, and from this angle, it was very different from what he saw last night. His apartment was facing the south of the Xinghai Building, and he happened to see the scene of Zhou Ziyang’s fall; However, the balcony of the room where Zhang Xiaonian was located faces the north side of the Xinghai Building, which was equivalent to being on the ‘back’ of the building, and he did not see Zhou Ziyang fall from the building last night.
Yue Xingwen pointed to the opposite side of the building and said, “Zhou Ziyang fell from there.”
Liu Zhaoqing looked at the Xinghai Building, touching his chin to analyze, “The top floor of this building has very wide eaves, and it’s not realistic to climb up from the side. According to the current evidence, there is no one going upstairs in the monitoring, so there’s only one possibility… The murderer is waiting for him on the top of the building in advance?”
Jiang Pingce also came over and stood beside Yue Xignwen to join the discussion, “The murderer waited on the roof in advance and needed to make sure that Zhou Ziyang would climb up to the roof, so it was likely that he called Zhou Ziyang and the two reached some agreement before Zhou Ziyang went up to the rooftop. But there is no call record in the mobile phone, was it deleted by the murderer?”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “I don’t believe that the mobile phone was thrown by Zhou Ziyang in the women’s restroom, it should be put back by the murderer. Zhou Ziyang’s mobile phone, there must be a lot of important information related to the murderer. The murderer cleaned up this information, and then secretly put the mobile phone back to the women’s toilet on the 40th floor, creating the illusion that Zhou Ziyang ‘lost his mobile phone after drinking, lost his footing and fell down’.”
Call records, WeChat records, photos, etc, would certainly leave clues. The murderer would delete all these clues, and then put the mobile phone back into the women’s restroom. No one knew who else Zhou Ziyang contacted before he died.
Qin Miao came over and asked calmly, “The police force will no longer investigate this case, and also said that the case will be closed by ‘accidental fall’. The next investigation will all depend on ourselves, what are your plans?”
Yue Xingwen said, “Tonight, Pingce, senior brother Liu, and senior brother Xu rest first. Last night, you were all on night shift and didn’t sleep, so you will be tired now. The remaining people, I will go to the deceased’s residence with Qin Lu and senior sister Lan. The others split up to look at the monitoring, looking at all the monitoring from beginning to end, starting from the evening before leaving work, and don’t miss any details.”
The skill was restored, Qin Lu could directly enter the deceased’s home with Plate Movement, and tomorrow, after Liu Lan and Liu Minghui went out, they could also go to the home of these two people to check, and the investigation was even more convenient than the police getting a search warrant.
The murderer could not have committed the crime perfectly, and the murderer must have left clues.
They must find out the evidence left by the murderer as soon as possible!
…The description of the food makes me hungry LOL
Thank you for the translation ❤
I find it strange that the library can’t make good food in the cafeteria but can make good food in the instance. It makes me wonder if these instances are actually parallel worlds or something…
I’m here for fun, so I will not trying to turn on my brain
Thank you for your translation 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗